| > Really? That's an interesting world view. Indeed, it is a world view, and not a nationalist one. > On the contrary ... You say that as the one with the weapons and thus, the loudest dogma. Really, think about this again but instead - indeed, contrarily - try looking at it from the perspective of those nations which must always and dutifully bend a knee to the nuclear-armed thugs in their neighborhood. This would of course require you to apply something more powerful than any technology, and which is a far more effective substance than fission when it comes to producing peace: empathy. Technological inequality is the basis of all oppression. Oppressors only get away with it because they have the technology to do so, and their victims don't. There is much motivation to believe that the world would be a lot more fair and equitable place to live in without this technological oppression consistently and unfailingly being used to blackmail the worlds poor into submission. Especially in societies where empathy for ones fellow human beings has been sapped by relentless dogma. Just because you can build nukes, doesn't mean your self-acclaimed "great society" [0] should consistently be allowed to lead the world into calamity and chaos, over and over again. Which is precisely what the nuclear thugs are doing with their power. They don't make the world more peaceful - indeed, they make it more dangerous. If bayonets were all we had to fight each other with, we wouldn't be so keen to do so. Nuclear weapons are the ultimate expression of utter irresponsibility for ones fellow human beings, and under the threat of their use, much atrocity has been committed. Peoples who consider themselves truly equal, share technology for the good and do not weaponize it against themselves. It is only the "moralistic" imperative to demonstrate ones higher power against 'the lesser, unclean others' that motivates the user to turn technology into a weapon ... so yes, de-nuclearization would, by definition, mean a lot more peace in the world. Maybe not for those with the privileged nuclear buttons to push, initially, but not long after, certainly for those who have no choice but to live as though foreign uncontrollable powers may destroy the world within 45 minutes, any day of the year .. [0] - This will always be met with resistance, because there is no true one great human society. They all suck. |